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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?

Why?
What has he ever done for the board (grin!) apart from starting what could turn out to be the longest-thread-so-far-this-year?

If he helps you achieving your biggest goal this year, surely it must be worth something, no?